Who Is Michelle Kosinski’s Husband?

In 2019, the Columbia Journalism review said of CNN and Kosinski’s work: “But I also know that that’s not all of CNN, and not only because the analysis, during the day and in the evening, is interspersed with straight news. When I covered foreign affairs for BuzzFeed News’ national security desk (RIP), I attended the State Department press briefings. And I’d see Michelle Kosinski, CNN senior diplomatic correspondent, whose questions to the State spokesperson at the time, Heather Nauert, were hard hitting, pointed and unrelenting.”

She currently serves on the board of the Friends of the American University of Afghanistan, and in 2019 provided a full scholarship to a young Afghan woman.

CNN named Kosinski Senior Diplomatic Correspondent in 2017, based at the US Department of State.

In 2014, she became a White House correspondent for CNN.

In August 2013, Kosinski announced her engagement to retired British investment banker and philanthropist Kimbell Duncan. They married on August 9, 2014, in an American-British themed wedding attended by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and other television personalities. Kosinski wore a crown of flowers in a nod to her Polish heritage, while Duncan wore a kilt in his family’s tartan.

In her career she has travelled to more than 60 countries, including Afghanistan during the US war, Pakistan after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and Haiti following the earthquake in 2010.

In 2010, Kosinski was named a foreign correspondent and moved from NBC’s Southeast Bureau to London.

In 2009, Kosinski purchased a $5.6 million, 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m) home in Coral Gables, Florida.

While at NBC news she extensively covered the trials of Amanda Knox and Oscar Pistorius, the Virginia Tech tragedy, the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the 2008 US presidential election, for which she won an Emmy.

In August 2005, while covering the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba, NBC arranged an interview with the director of Aruban prisons and a tour of suspect Joran van der Sloot’s prison. During the tour, she ran into van der Sloot and conducted an off-camera interview. Prison director Fred Maduro appeared live on MSNBC and admitted that he offered her the tour. After Van der Sloot’s attorneys called for a hearing on the matter, NBC declined to air the footage.

Rolling Stone magazine named Kosinski to its famous “Hot List” in 2005, as “Hot Reporter.”

Kosinski began work in broadcast journalism in Rockford, Illinois for WIFR while earning her BA and MA simultaneously from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, as part of the Accelerated Masters Program, and was named “On Your Side” Reporter, investigating viewer problems and complaints. Leaving WIFR, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at WSOC-TV and founded the Piedmont Bureau, covering nine counties. In 2001, she was voted the Best Reporter in Charlotte by readers of the city’s arts and entertainment magazine. In Fall of 2001, she left WSOC-TV for WTVJ in Miami. She is a 2003 Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards Craft Winner for reporting on Haitian immigrants and was named Woman of the Year in 2005 by Women in Communications of South Florida.

Michelle Kosinski (born May 6, 1974) is an Emmy award winning American journalist who most recently served as Senior Diplomatic Correspondent covering the State Department for CNN. Prior to that, she covered the Obama White House. She was a foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London (2010–2014); before that she was a correspondent based in Miami (2005–2009).